All this "fiasco" makes me remember when they developed Doom3 and, instead of calculating the lightning shader in real time, they developed texture lookups. In the nVidia FX cards it helped a lot, due to their poor shading capabilities, but in the top cards of the 9 series of ATI it made the game slower. A graphics enthusiast (Humus, nowadays the main developer of the engine used in the avalanche studios games -> Just Cause 2) discovered this, and developed a substitution shader that improved the performance in almost a 40%.
When you develop a game for more than one architecture, sometimes you have to adapt to the shortcomings of one of them, but you can't always develop close to the metal. Some PS3 fans think they deserve that the developers spend much more time in their version than in others. That was reasonable in the last generation, with one console capturing almost the 75% of the market, but it's unreasonable in a market almost evenly fragmented.
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